FCP Crash problem

FCP 5
G5
os x 10.4.11
6.5 GB Ramm
1.8 processor

I have been working on a project for the past five months. Today, when I opened up the project, it loads all the way up to the window that indicates some media is offline, do I wish to continue. I have always gotten that window and indicated "OK" and the project opens. Today, FCP crashes each time I click "OK". I have dumped the FCP preferences and plist and same thing happens. I opened up FCP 4.5 successfully, then tried to open the project and it says it is corrupted, so I went to my Autosave folder and tried to open up earlier versions and got the same "corruption" result, which makes no sense at all. Now, I'm stuck and don't know how I can open up this important project. Any ideas?

Try moving all your media to a different drive or (not as good) to a different folder to try and hide it from FCP.

It sounds like there is a corrupt piece of media it is trying to load and failing. Moving the media to somewhere it can't be found can sometimes allow you to open the project. Once you do this, save, change your preferences to not read 'open last project on launch' and then start reconnecting the media a bit at a time. You'll know when you get to the bad media.

If it is corrupt you might try this technique

[www.lafcpug.org]

Michael Horton
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Yes, that's also Charlie Roberts' favorite method of booting a stubborn project, works great. Just eject the media drive and boot the project. Then attach the drive(s) and try to reconnect. If you crash or hang on a specific file you can figure it's corrupted.

- Loren
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